Quotes About Introspection

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.